Well, a week into summer vacation and the girls and I are loving the warm weather that is finally upon us! I sure hope the sunshine stick...

London's Underground River~ by sub-urban.com, via Flickr ~ Below the ground there is a remarkable network of tunnels and chambers, put in to place by Victorian engineers, the final step in a process which took centuries. For over a thousand years there had been a shipping dock at the mouth of the river – its name comes from the Anglo-Saxon fleot which means a tidal inlet. Yet it was not destined to persevere as a river in its own right.